Walk
with us in our beautiful Central Harlem neighborhood on Saturday
& Sunday, October 9th and 10th, 2010 from 9AM to 5PM. The tour
features the work of over 60 artists living and working in
Harlem. Enjoy a relaxing weekend and discover new artwork,
galleries and meet artists from Harlem�s vibrant art scene.

Casa Frela Gallery located at 47 West 119th Street is the
starting point where maps will be distributed to all tour
participants, highlighting the various stops on the walking tour
including open artist studios, museums, and cultural and
historic venues. All forms of art will be featured including
sculptures, ceramics, painting, photographs, etchings and prints
and textiles.

Walk with us in our beautiful Central Harlem neighborhood on
Saturday & Sunday, October 9th and 10th, 2010 from 9AM to 5PM.
The tour features the work of over 60 artists living and working
in Harlem. Enjoy a relaxing weekend and discover new artwork,
galleries and meet artists from Harlem's vibrant art scene.
Casa Frela Gallery located at 47 West 119th Street is the
starting point where maps will be distributed to all tour
participants, highlighting the various stops on the walking tour
including open artist studios, museums, and cultural and
historic venues. All forms of art will be featured including
sculptures, ceramics, painting, photographs, etchings and prints
and textiles.

Casually scroll through Central Harlem at a convenient pace, buy
original artwork from emerging to established artists, visit
with the artists and gallery owners or sit down and rest at one
of the many sponsoring organizations that are offering services
to make your visit as pleasurable as possible.

Working together Harlem art galleries, businesses and
organizations have created an exciting art venue free and open
to the public. Please come and join us! This tour is sponsored
by Casa Frela Gallery and is a part of Open House New York
(OHNY 2010).
Casually scroll through Central Harlem at a convenient pace, buy
original artwork from emerging to established artists, visit
with the artists and gallery owners or sit down and rest at one
of the many sponsoring organizations that are offering services
to make your visit as pleasurable as possible.

Working together Harlem art galleries, businesses and
organizations have created an exciting art venue free and open
to the public. Please come and join us! This tour is sponsored
by Casa Frela Gallery and is a part of Open House New York.

More about Dripping Ink

By Marcia E. Wilson
Edited by Sharon T. King

Photographer Marcia
Wilson

Dripping Ink is a selection of images of some of America's most
influential late 20th, and early 21st century authors of the
African Diaspora. These writers use words as a weapon to express
their inner power, courage, and purpose. They contribute to the
human progress borne out of the mental and spiritual expansion
created by books, thereby giving all readers the gifts of
vision, inspiration, direction and hope.

I photographed our authors at public functions from signings
to ceremonies �with New York City as a backdrop. I wanted to
capture on film the moments when the storyteller and his/her
audience at these events became one. A constant exchange of
dialogue between writer and audience at these events presented
me with many opportunities to present these moments. These
events also gave the audience an opportunity to place a face and
personality on these spiritual and intellectual guides he
authors.

Many of these images in this series were captured in Black-owned
bookstores (Nkiru Books, Brooklyn), churches (Abyssinian Baptist
Church, Harlem), book fairs (The Harlem Book Fair), and
educational institutions (The Schomburg Library).

I invite you to view these photographs with your minds, hearts
and souls. May the photographer and her audience become one.
Click!

Dedication

Dripping Ink is dedicated to the
contributions Black-owned bookstores have made in presenting
voices of the African diaspora, and for providing an open and
nurturing environment for writers to connect with readers and
explore new work. Also, thanks to the many writers that with
their tales, poetry, and knowledge have positively impacted my
life beyond expectation.

Authors in Dripping Ink Exhibit Include:

The stars look so huge and so close .At times I feel like
I can just reach out and pull a star down from the sky as though
it is a breadfruit or a calabash or something that could be of
use to us on this journey. From Krik Krak, by
Edwidge Danticat

My writing reflects my own growth and expansion, and at
the same time the society in which I have existed throughout
this confrontation. Whether it is politics, music, literature,
or the origins of language, there is always a historical and
time/place/condition reference that will always try to explain
why I was saying both how and for what.
Amiri Baraka

As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do
not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a
problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only
about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of
these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding
of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn
about feminism from patriarchal mass media.
bell hooks

As she watched him pick up the mango, she marveled, anew
at his face. Like reggae, it was a New World hybrid, a genetic
mlange of bloods that carried in their DNA memories of the
tribes that fought and f***** on the shores of the Americas
Chinese and Arab, English and Scottish from his father's side;
Dutch and Portuguese Sephardic Jew from his mother's. But the
final combination - brown like sun-fired clay; cheeks high and
spread apart; nose narrow with a rounded tip; lips wide and
fluted -was a vibrant African presence, Yoruba and Akan. from,
Waiting In Vain by
Colin Channer

Leaving jobs and engaging in other activities to protest
what I felt was wrong did not destroy my career. To the
contrary, those actions, while not always easy to take, enriched
my life and provided me with the perhaps unrealistic but no less
satisfying sense that I was doing God's work. From, Ethical
Ambition by
Derrick Bell

"...I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated
Sunday school lessons". I began to suspect at this early age
that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long
search for the true history of African people the world over
began."
Dr. John Henrik Clark

blackwoman will define herself. Naturally. Will
talk/walk/live/& love her images. Her beauty will be. the only
way to be is to be. blackman take her. U don't need music to
move; r/movement toward her is music. & she'll do more than
dance.
Haki Madhubuti

Antigua is a small place, a small island. It was settled
by Christopher Columbus in 1943. Not too long after, it was
settled by human rubbish from Europe, who used enslave by noble
and exalted human beings from Africa to satisfy their desire for
wealth and power, to feel better about their own miserable
existence, so that they could be less lonely and empty - a
European disease. From, A Small Place,
Jamaica Kincaid

There It Is And if we don't fight
if we don't resist/if we don't organize and unify and/ get the
power to control our own lives
Then we will wear
the exaggerated look of captivity/the stylized look of
submission.
the bizarre look of suicide/the dehumanized look of fear
and the decomposed look of repression/forever and ever and ever
And there it is
Jayne Cortez

I shut my eyes and tensed my muscles against an urge to
vomit. I had seen people beaten on television and in the movies.
I had seen the too-red blood substitute streaked across their
backs and heard their well-rehearsed screams. But I hadn't lain
nearby and smelled their sweat or heard them pleading and
praying, shamed before their families and themselves.-- From,
Kindred by
Octavia Butler

Lady in Orange:
Our whole body
wrapped like a ripe mango
ramblin whippin thr space
on the corner in the park
where the rug useta be
let willie colon take you out
swing your head
push your leg to the moon with me. For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide when the Rainbow was
enuf by
Ntozake Shange

This is the time for the creative
Man. Woman. Who must decide
that She. He. Can live in Peace./Racial and sexual justice
on/this earth.
This is the time for you and me. African American. Whites.
Latinos.
Gays. Asians. Jews. Native/Americans. Lesbians. Muslims.
All of us must finally bury
the elitism of race superiority/the elitism of sexual
superiority
the elitism of economic superiority
the elitism of religious superiority Poem for July 4, 1994 by
Sonia Sanchez